Redskins 2011 Salary Cap Status

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by skinster

gtripp, someone said earlier on this site that there is no cap implications for dead money? Do you have information that differs?

Uh, yes. We're going to have to wait for the league to decide exactly what type of dead-cap relief will be given, but the NFL's accounting methods for the salary cap would simply not result in a "starting fresh". That would imply they just wiped the books during the uncapped year. But they didn't wipe the books. There was just no cap.

Now, if for whatever reason the concept of "deadcap" goes away over the course of the new CBA, that would be one thing. But that would require guaranteed contracts first, and that's a different can of worms entirely.